Good point. Slack has searchable archives, but I don't think it shows up in Google like the mailing list does.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote: > one of the benefits of keeping conversations in mailing lists is it can > be searchable later. It will benefit users who might seen the same error > which was answered on the mailing lists before. slack/glitter can do > that? > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015, at 09:59 PM, Gwen Shapira wrote: >> FYI: >> Joining Slack requires an invitation. We can take invite-requests in >> the mailing lists (like we do for KIP hangout). >> I wanted to point this out as this may be considered non-Apache >> (although I didn't find any specific wording against invite-only >> channels in addition to the mailing list). >> >> So, if you want to try it out, yell for an invite :) >> >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> > So, as an experiment, I created: >> > https://apachekafka.slack.com >> > >> > I figured we'll give it a whirl for a week or two for dev discussions, >> > see how it goes and if we have activity we can add this to the website >> > and announce on the lists. >> > >> > Gwen >> > >> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Slack sounds good and I'm not a fan of gitter (we use it for Apache >> >> Sqoop, I dislike the GUI and the guilt-inducing emails about all the >> >> messages I missed...) >> >> Do they have free rooms for open source projects? >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Psaltis >> >> <psaltis.and...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> +1 for slack >> >>> >> >>> On Saturday, July 18, 2015, Neha Narkhede <n...@confluent.io> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> FWIW, if the apache-kafka channel was on Slack, I'd hang out there :-) >> >>>> >> >>>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk >> >>>> <javascript:;>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> > Hi Grant, >> >>>> > >> >>>> > I have been considering proposing the same thing myself for similar >> >>>> > reasons, but I also have some doubts. More comments inline. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Grant Henke <ghe...@cloudera.com >> >>>> <javascript:;>> wrote: >> >>>> > >> >>>> > > I think it could be useful to have a place to chat that is >> >>>> > > associated >> >>>> > with >> >>>> > > the Kafka repo. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > Agreed. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > > Note that we do currently have an IRC channel, but from my >> >>>> > > experience its a ghost town. >> >>>> > > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > I've recently joined #apache-kafka and activity is low, yes, but >> >>>> > there is >> >>>> > some[1]. The bigger issue, perhaps, is that contributors are not >> >>>> > there. >> >>>> Do >> >>>> > we think that this would be different with Gitter? And, if so, what is >> >>>> the >> >>>> > reason? Is it because no application needs to be installed? In theory, >> >>>> > IRCCloud provides something similar for IRC (although the limitations >> >>>> > of >> >>>> > the trial and the upgrade nagging can be annoying) and we could link >> >>>> > to >> >>>> the >> >>>> > channel in GitHub's readme. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > Also, are there any Apache projects who use Gitter? There was a >> >>>> > thread in >> >>>> > the Spark mailing list, but the response wasn't positive[2]. We would >> >>>> need >> >>>> > Apache Infra to set-up Gitter for us as they are the only ones that >> >>>> > have >> >>>> > write access to the repository (the set-up is really easy though, >> >>>> > which >> >>>> is >> >>>> > definitely a positive). >> >>>> > >> >>>> > Gitter may be the right answer, I just want to make sure it actually >> >>>> helps >> >>>> > us have a more active channel instead of splitting the existing >> >>>> > activity >> >>>> > between two channels. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > Thoughts? >> >>>> > >> >>>> > Best, >> >>>> > Ismael >> >>>> > >> >>>> > [1] >> >>>> > https://botbot.me/freenode/apache-kafka/2015-07-06/?tz=Europe/London >> >>>> > [2] >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Gitter-chat-room-for-Spark-td11636.html >> >>>> > >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> -- >> >>>> Thanks, >> >>>> Neha >> >>>>
